The Board has determined that the Veteran's left and right eye conditions are not related to his active service, and thus denied the claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the current diagnoses of macular degeneration in both eyes are age-related and do not have a causal relationship with military service.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye condition, right eye condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19113341
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Decisions by this judge: 1,164 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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